IA Student Development

To understand the scope of student opportunities enjoyed
by Rose State College students, it is important to understand the uniqueness
of its setting. With 27,000
civilian and military personnel, Tinker Air Force Base is the largest air
depot installation in the United States and the largest employer of the
state of Oklahoma. Many of these
employees and their dependents are Rose State College students. As Rose State College is located less than a mile from the gates,
Rose State College has a long-standing relationship with the Base. Beginning
in 1971, the College has been the preferred location for Tinker AFB training
workshops. In 2009, the College
hosted 14,000 individuals in credit and non-credit training in the
Professional Education and Training Center. Approximately 90% of the training was Tinker AFB and related.

To serve its constituents such as Tinker AFB and its
contractors and the state of Oklahoma, Rose State College has
developed many courses which incorporate CNSS certificates into the two-year
associates degree. Faculty members associated with CSEC have worked across
several states to standardize programs in the area of Cyber Security,
Information Assurance and Digital Forensics.

In
addition to the acceptance of Associate in Science and Associate in Arts
transfer degree programs, Rose State College has entered into specific
articulation agreements for specific programs such as Cyber Security,
Applied Technology, Technical Supervision and Management, and others. Four-year institutions with which Rose State College holds
articulation agreements include the College of Liberal Studies at the
University of Oklahoma the University of Central Oklahoma, East Central
University, Northeastern Oklahoma State University, and others. Evidence of the articulation agreements at this web site.

The state of Oklahoma offers concurrent enrollment to high
school students who meet the required academic criteria. Rose State College participates in this initiative with Mid-Del
Public Schools and various smaller school systems within its service area. The Prospective Student Services Office, the College student
recruiting oversees these outreach efforts as well as the gap funding
initiative, “Ticket to Rose” that became available to students in 2009. In addition, specific articulation agreements, Cooperative Alliances,
which pertain to the Cyber Security Program have been negotiated which allow
for articulation between the technology center of the Mid-Del Public School
System, and other area technology centers in the College’s service area. Students who are in the related programs may earn college credit
while still attending the career technology center. These Cooperative Alliances are available at the following website. A specific “Technology Center Catalog” is printed annually and made
available on the College website. This catalog specifies the admission and
enrollment requirements and the course equivalencies between the College
coursework and the technology center program coursework.

Evidence of the Cooperative Alliance Agreements can be
seen in excerpts from the “Technology Center Catalog” designating the course
equivalencies: Career Tech Catalog (PDF).

Workshops / Competitions:

Rose State College also hosts workshops on “Identity Theft,” “Risk
Management,” and “Access Data Certified Examiner Training,” the Forensic
Toolkit training, to local schools and other two-year institutions during
in-service training. Schools that have participated in these training
activities include:

Current competitions hosted by or
assisted by the Rose State IA Program:

1. Cyber Security
Invitational Competition – hosted by OSU-IT, Rose State Cyber Security
students served as mentors to the career technology students entered in the
competition

2. Skills USA – Rose State
Cyber Security students mentored students in the area of Micro Hardware and
Operating Systems and also in the area of Networking

Links to Courses with Lab Training:

All
the classes taught in the Rose State Cyber Security program are application
based and utilize a “hands-on” portion and experiential lab training. The
percentage of lab training has recently increased with the implementation of
the virtualization infrastructure.